Problem with classes and Arrays

Hello i'm a newbie, i've done all the basic tutorials but i am confused about the classes;

what i want to do is make the game exploding atoms.
it requires a field of 10x10 and 2 deep to combine values.

I want this all in a class called playfield and i want to have a function called clrfield to clear the playfield

This is what I've tried so far:

Code:

class playfield 
{
      public:
             playfield();
             ~playfield();
             int field[10][10][2];
             int expnumber;
             

};
playfield::playfield()
{
 
                      }
playfield::~playfield()
{
                       }

void clrfield()
{ 
     int a, b;
     for (a=0;a<=10;a++){
         for (b=0;b<=10;b++){
             playfield::field[a][b][1]=0;
             }
             }
}

what did i do wrong?
thnx in advance

You should be clearing both "playfield::field[a][b][0]" and "playfield::field[a][b][1]". Also, 'clrfield' should be a member of the playfield class.

Quzah.

I get the error: 'playfield::field' is non-static but is referred to as static

Its because you don't have an instance of playfield in your function. There are two ways around this depending on how exactly you want to implement your code. One is to make clearfield a member function of the class (preferred method):

Code:

class playfield 
{
      public:
             playfield();
             ~playfield();
             void clrfield();
             int field[10][10][2];
             int expnumber;
             

};
playfield::playfield()
{
 
                      }
playfield::~playfield()
{
                       }

void playfield::clrfield()
{ 
     int a, b;
     for (a=0;a<=10;a++){
         for (b=0;b<=10;b++){
             field[a][b][1]=0;
             }
             }
}

Or if you intend for the function to not be a part of the class then you have to declare an instance of playfield in your function like you would any other variable type like int, char, etc (not-preferred):

Code:

class playfield 
{
      public:
             playfield();
             ~playfield();
             int field[10][10][2];
             int expnumber;
             

};
playfield::playfield()
{
 
                      }
playfield::~playfield()
{
                       }

void clrfield()
{ 
     int a, b;
     playfield myPlayfield;
     for (a=0;a<=10;a++){
         for (b=0;b<=10;b++){
             myPlayfield.field[a][b][1]=0;
             }
             }
}

This last variation is not preferable since its usually a bad idea to allow the user direct access to the data of a class.

thanks that helped a lot!!
I am now beginning to understand how classes work
the tutorial wasnt explaining enough but now i know how it works thanx

greetings GonzO